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Like many, if not all houses all the way to
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Inner yard of Mont-Saint-Jean Farm which was used as military hospital by the
British forces at the end of the Battle of Waterloo. Restored in preparation of the bi-centennial of the Battle of Waterloo, June 2015. It now incorporates a small
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MĂ©moires pour servir Ă l'histoire de France en 1815, avec le plan de la bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean
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